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While a career is a significant and integral part of the life of most people, the shape of careers is undergoing considerable change as the world of work moves from an industrial-based model to an information and service-based model. This course focuses on career development as a lifelong process to enable learners (including career development practitioners, educators, counsellors, trainers and other interested professionals) to understand the relevance of career development in education and the contemporary world of work.

This course will introduce students to some of the major theories of career development, particularly those relevant to lifelong adult career development and the changing world-of-work. The course overviews the practices and providers of career development, current international and domestic policy issues, industry trends, and lifespan development and societal issues that relate to career development. In addition to theory, the course entails practical activities for part of the assessment which will require students to complete a set of self-reflective learning tasks that underpin career self-management for lifelong learners.

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. The assessment item(s) that may be used to assess student achievement of an objective are shown in parenthesis. On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. demonstrate an understanding of lifelong career development (Assignments 1 and 2);
2. demonstrate a critical understanding of selected theories of career development relevant to lifelong career planning (Assignments 1 and 2);
3. demonstrate an understanding of the career development industry, the major providers of career development services, by reflective practice, within it and a foundation understanding of professional practices (Assignment 2);
4. demonstrate an in-depth self-understanding with relation to his/her own career development taking a lifelong perspective (Assignment 1);
5. demonstrate an understanding of the changing nature of the world of work and the need for career development at the level of the individual and society (Assignment 2);
6. demonstrate an understanding of some of the lifelong development and societal issues and their relationships with career (Assignments 1 and 2);
7. demonstrate competence in and appropriate use of language and literacy, including spelling, grammar, punctuation and bibliographic referencing (Assignments 1 and 2).